External Contact Person:

Brad Lobitz

Email:

colwell [at] umbi.umd.edu

Language
English

Bibliographic reference:

Lobitz, B. et al. (2000): Climate and Infectious Disease: Use of Remote Sensing for Detection of Vibrio Cholerae by Indirect Measurement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 97, No. 4, 1438-1443.

Bubonic plague, caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, persists as a public health problem in many parts of the world, including central Kazakhstan. Bubonic plague occurs most often in humans through a flea bite, when a questing flea fails to find a rodent host. For many of the plague foci in Kazakhstan the great gerbil is the major host of plague, a social rodent well-adapted to desert environments. Intensive monitoring and